Status Updates From Baby Bruise

'...no matter where I was, I had the urge to exit, to run away. But where would I go? I wanted nonexistence, or maybe I just wanted to return to who I was before my first heartbreak.'

'I was not a girl who pleaded for someone to requite her love. I couldn't be... But I was—I wanted to bruise my knees kneeling at their feet.'

'For the third time, Polly it a cigarette, took a few puffs, then handed it off to a stranger passing by.

"Why do you keep doing that?" I asked.

"The first few steps of a cigarette are beautiful," she said. "The rest are rotten."'

I had to take a break, otherwise I'm pretty sure I would have gotten through this in one sitting.

So far? I feel an impending sense of dread, and I think that is just due to being old. If you spent your teenage years sneaking out, hanging out with people you shouldn't, doing things you shouldn't, getting crushes on people you shouldn't, and crying over crushes? This book is for you.